A/N Thank you to the new followers, favourites and reviews, I'm really happy and appreciate them. Thought I would answer about why I chose my character to be pretty and British from the guest review. Fin is actually a main character from my own story that I'm writing, I thought it would be good for developing my writing to put her in a fanfiction story and as my story is set partly in WW2, I naturally thought of Band of brothers (I'm a massive bob fan). She's pretty because it would make it easier to write her responses to the banter she receives from the men. She's also pretty because I read a lot of stories about female characters who think they are average looking and don't know why the gorgeous boy fancies them, but it actually turns out that she is pretty... I thought I'd just make Fin pretty and she'd know she was. Fin is British because I am British, it's easier to write! :) Thank you for all the reviews, I really enjoy reading them and will explain anything you'd like to know. I will also take things on board.

Here's chapter 8, I lost my mojo on it a bit, so may edit it if I think of better bits to include and replace!

During debrief, Fin learnt that Brecourt was successful, but unfortunately Winters still lost a man, it was Hall from Able, he had asked to go, this had upset Winters a lot. Winters had also managed to obtain some intelligence to add to what Fin had got from the German trenches, Nix had praised Winters and Fin, the intelligence they had gathered showed every German gun, the risk had paid off and Fin was pleased. Fin was displeased on finding out that Speirs had arrived with more ammunition, had asked if Dog company could take the fourth gun and ran outside of the trenches to do so! It was so reckless!

She had finally found a clean jacket, a bit big, but it would do, it was probably from a dead soldier, but she didn't ask for the history. Fin felt awful, Speirs had been concerned for her and she hadn't thought about him at all until their run in with each other and then again at debrief. To top off her guilt she also realised that she hadn't thought about Shifty either or seen him! What was she? Some kind of robot? Devoid of all emotions when in combat? She needed to reassess herself, she could still care for others and get her job done. Fin felt Speirs' concern was inappropriate though, he had a sweetheart in England, the red head who caused her stomach to flip painfully. She was jealous, it was hard to admit, especially to herself. She needed to get a grip. No.1 he was spoken for No.2 He was an Officer and she was an NCO No.3 Nothing would happen in combat No.4 She wouldn't let it No.5 what did she mean, she wouldn't let it? Maybe he wouldn't let it? No.6 Stop thinking you are more than just a soldier to other people. No.7 go find Shifty and check he's ok No.8 wait until your 35 and marry Bill No.9 that's if Bill isn't married by then. Just as Fin was considering point no.10 she saw Shifty.

"So...do you come here often?" she said sidling up beside him.

Shifty turned "Hey you're a sight for sore eyes!"

They hugged.

"Come on, I think Luz is attempting to cook something in the truck" Fin laughed pulling Shifty over.

Pulling up the flap, Buck greeted them hauling Fin into the truck and then Shifty. "Sit here" Luz said forcing a space between him and Tab, Fin obliged.

Luz held up a bottle of Whiskey "Any takers?"

"Yes please!" Fin said grabbing it and drinking some before it was pulled out of her hand by Bill who took a swig.

"Slow down Mrs G, I don't want an alcoholic for a wife!" Bill said winking

Shifty looked up at Bill, it was a joke, but it fucked him off, don't call her Mrs G!

"Whiskey?" Bill said offering it to Shifty.

"Mrs G? Hey? It hurts! It hurts so much!" Luz cried clutching his chest

"If it doesn't work out then, I'll come looking for you!" Fin teased

"Hey doll! It's gonna work! I'm dynamite in bed!" Bill said laughing.

"Well, in that case I can't wait until I'm 35!" Fin winked.

Buck laughed as they were interrupted by the flap being lifted and Winters poked his head in. "Smells like something died in here!"

"Whiskey Sir?" Tab offered

"He don't drink idiot!" Bill scolded

Winters took the bottle "It's been a day of firsts!"

Bill eyed Winters

"Fin can I see you outside?" Winters ordered

"Yes Sir" Fin got up and shuffled to the end where Winters assisted her down before popping his head back in "I'm not a Quaker by the way" he said to Bill to an eruption of laughter.

Fin walked ahead clear of the truck. Winters joined her.

"I saw the two Germans you took out" Winters said "Are you ok?"

"Yes Sir, please don't worry about me, I can't do my job if you're worrying about me"

Winters smiled "It most definitely is a day of firsts for me!"

Nix strolled over putting one arm around Fin's shoulders and one arm around Winters' shoulders. "How's my two favourite people? Battalion is very pleased, you should be proud"

"I still lost a man, Popeye and Fin got injured" Winters sighed

"I'm fine, but Popeye and Hall, it casts a shadow Sir" Fin said quietly.

Fin turned and headed back to the truck with her head down and Winters stepped up his pace in the other direction also with his head down.

"It's gonna make a difference though! I think it's really going to help!" Nix called after them both.

...

Fin noticed the lit butt of a cigarette in a doorway of a building just near to the truck. Speirs she assumed.

"Corporal Finney" Speirs said walking forward taking the last drag from his lucky strike.

"Yes Sir"

"What were you doing at Brecourt?" he asked dropping his finished cigarette to the ground.

"I wasn't at Brecourt Sir" Fin lied, she was lying a lot to Speirs at the moment, but it wasn't her fault, he needed to stop asking her questions.

"I heard Winters" Speirs said

"I heard you ran out of the trenches to take the fourth gun Sir" Fin replied

Speirs smirked "Don't change the subject"

"That's was quite a reckless action Sir" Fin continued to change the subject.

Speirs walked over to Fin, grabbed her upper arm, turning her around and pushing her into the doorway. Placing a hand either side of Fin on the door to stop her leaving, he leant in close and said in a tone just above a whisper "I had some pent up anger to get rid of"

"If you're trying to intimidate me, you're only succeeding in turning me on!" Fin announced.

Speirs pushed himself away took out his pack of Lucky Strikes and lit another one.

Fin took the opportunity to walk away quickly disregarding the fact that she spoke to an officer inappropriately.

"Corporal Finney!" Speirs called

Fin reluctantly stopped, turning around slowly.

"You're only succeeding in turning me on... Sir!" Speirs corrected Fin before walking away in the opposite direction.

...

The next day they spent most of it hanging around waiting for any more troopers to arrive. Webster and Spina had joined them. Fin busied herself with Roe in the Aid station, mainly to avoid a certain Lieutenant. She absolutely hated herself for that comment last night, she had made it so obvious that she liked him and now she would have to work hard at pretending she wasn't. She didn't know why she spoke the way she did, she presumed it was because she had spent half of her teen years surrounded by men of all classes and being trained by men. The British lads were just constant banter all the time, so that's what she did. Although, it wasn't banter all the time, sometimes she meant it and she wondered whether Speirs would have taken last night's comment seriously or not.

Welsh stuck his head in "Get ready! We're moving out!"

Fin packed up her gear.

Later that evening Easy plugged along through marshy water following Fox Company. They were surrounded by dead bodies, burning wreckage and the sound of gun fire that was probably too close for comfort. Fin actually felt quite at home, she then felt sick at the thought, this most definitely should not feel like home to her.

Not looking where she was going, Fin almost tripped over Perconte who had stopped to nick a watch from a dead Kraut.

"Don't wake Jerry!" Hoobler laughed.

"Watches hey?" Fin commented

"You collect anything Fin?" Perconte asked

"testicles" Fin answered straight faced

"Shit" Perconte laughed "glad you're on my side!"

Suddenly the platoon stopped, Fin moved closer to see what was happening.

"Damn it!" Hoobler cursed

"What?" Welsh asked

"We lost F company again Sir"

"Again?" Welsh sighed

"Hey Fin, Blythe, guess what!" Perconte called

"Finney go back and tell the rest to hold up!" Welsh ordered

"Yes Sir"

Fin ran back until she reached Winters "What's going on?"

"We lost F company again Sir"

"Has Welsh sent somebody?"

"Yes Sir"

"Ok, go back tell Nix and Dog company, then get back up front quick"

"Yes Sir"

Fin ran back further ignoring questions from the other men until she reached Nix "We lost Fox Sir" she informed before moving onto Dog, hoping it was another Officer before Speirs, but no of course it wasn't.

"We lost Fox Sir" she informed Speirs without stopping and returning to the front as quickly as possible. Speirs scolded, he was fed up of following. He wouldn't have lost Fox. He was also annoyed that Fin was obviously avoiding him.

They eventually found Fox Company and dug in by a hedgerow for the night, Winters had ordered they get some sleep, they would be taking Carentan tomorrow and Fin was warned that she'd probably be going in first.

Fin dug her Foxhole with Tab and Luz, Fin nestled herself between the both of them, much to their delight. The night was calmer, there was only the occasional sporadic gun fire. "Not sleeping with your fiance tonight?" Luz asked

"Nah, he's lending me out"

Luz chuckled "How did you like working with the Red Devils?"

"I liked it, they're a decent bunch" it was certainly easier working with them, seen as though she didn't have to hide anything from them Fin thought.

"What were the men like?"

"Tough, a little rough round the edges, they'd go in hard"

"Are they better than us?"

"Not better, not worse, different" Fin replied remaining diplomatic.

"Fin?"

"Yes Luz?"

"Are we talking about sex now?"

Fin stifled her laughter "God Luz, you're the funniest lad I've ever met!"

...

"We're moving out!" Buck ordered walking over to Fin's foxhole "Fin, up front, Winters wants to speak to you"

"Yes Sir" Fin replied trying to push Tab off her, he was such a heavy sleeper!

Fin jumped out and walked the line to Winters' foxhole, he was standing just outside it with Nix.

"You're going in first Fin, we've had intelligence that the place is teaming with snipers. Do what you do, go in unseen and start taking out any snipers, you know the sort of places they position themselves."

Fin nodded "Sir"

"When we reach the edge of the village, I'll give you the signal, you take off and we'll see you on the other side. We'll be coming in hard"

"Yes Sir" Fin walked back to Luz and Tab

"Have you ever noticed, that she never questions anything? Nix asked " She just accepts it the way it is?"

"She just doesn't question Officers" Winters replied

"Yes, but she was an Officer once, she's trained to question" Nix pondered.

...

They reached the edge of the dirt track that would lead to the village, Winters looked at Fin and nodded. Fin turned and walked to the back, the lads would be assuming her to take the rear as the medic. At the rear, Fin slipped off down into a ditch to wait for Easy to move up slightly, so she could move unseen. Suddenly Buck slipped into the ditch with her.

"I can't let you go in without an M1" he smiled handing her the gun.

Fin refused "I don't need it"

"How are you going to take out snipers?" Buck asked concerned

"I only need my side arm and knife, I get up close" she informed him.

Buck shook his head "You do a dangerous job girl, why the hell did you sign up?"

"I didn't sign up" Fin replied pulling her scarf up over her nose and removing her red cross, she pulled herself out of the ditch, she needed to move fast and get in that village before Easy started their assault.

Coming round the side of the village crawling through the grass, she came to the first building. The only way in was to scale the wall and go in over the roof. Not a problem for Fin, she climbed effortlessly. She peeped over onto the roof to check it was all clear before pulling herself over. All clear.

Fin crawled over the tiled roof. Crawling to the end, her small frame was perfect for this job, she always, well mostly arrived at her targets unseen. Her first sniper, straight in front. He was lying down flat on the roof facing away from her. Only his head was raised slightly watching through the sights of his rifle. Fin slithered her way towards him in silence. She brought herself up slightly, moving to the side of him. She came up beside him, pulled down her scarf and smiled. He whipped his head round at her, he jumped slightly in shock at her presence. His face expressionless, he didn't know what to make of this. Fin always liked to wait a few seconds before the kill if it was possible, she liked the thrill of seeing their shocked faces. She plunged her knife into his neck, covered his mouth with her other hand while he choked to death within seconds.

Fin pulled her scarf up over her nose and could see Easy moving up the dirt track. She rolled the German sniper out of the way and took position behind his rifle. She scanned the village through the sights of the rifle. The Germans would start firing on Easy soon, if she could see them, they could. She spotted her second German sniper, positioned in an upstairs window. He was eyeing up Easy about to shoot at 1st platoon quickly made their way. She pulled the trigger, he was dead. Then the firing started on Easy. She spun the rifle round to scan the village some more, three infantryman running from a cafe, she fired consecutively, taking all three out. The gun fire intensified, with Easy firing back. She noticed 2 and 3 platoons had dived into the ditches either side of the dirt track leaving some of 1st platoon exposed. She turned the rifle on the advancing Germans to help 1st platoon, she could see that one of them was Shifty. A grenade was about to be thrown in his direction, she fired taking out the thrower.

Shifty saw the grenade and then saw the thrower being killed. It had to be a sniper with a shot like that. He looked up and saw a figure behind a German rifle. The sniper didn't look German, it looked like an American uniform, but they were on the German side behind a German rifle. He aimed his rifle up and saw the sniper through his sights. He hesitated. Then a shot rang out, not his, the figure fell to the side, disappearing out of sight.

Shit, I'm hit Fin looked at her arm, bullet to her upper arm. The blood was flowing, but not badly. She pulled out a tourniquet and tied it tightly above the wound. Can't believe Shifty was going to shoot me! She chuckled to herself if only he'd known he almost shot her! Fin cursed herself though, concentrating on Shifty left her vulnerable to another sniper who had also seen her. She crawled to the side of the roof, she'd drop down to the ground and get herself over to the other building and take the sniper out who shot her.

Fin dropped to the floor landing in her crouch position that she had perfected over the years. She looked round the corner, making sure no one from Easy was there, when Winters said 'unseen' he meant unseen by Easy.

Fin ran across the street to the next building as a grenade exploded in the shop windows next to her sending her back across the street, sliding to a halt. Fin looked up and through the smoke she spotted Welsh and Tab advancing. Fin pulled herself up quickly and ran to the building hauling herself up the wall quickly to avoid being seen. As soon as she got to the first upstairs window, she pulled herself inside. In her haste to escape being seen by Easy, she had pulled herself through a window into a room with four German soldiers aiming their rifles at her.

Liebgott and Lip were shocked by an explosion in an upstairs window of the building they were about to storm, a soldier hurled out of the window, hitting the ground hard, but getting up and taking cover across the road. Shocked they stood staring until bullets hit the wall by them and they dived out of the way.

Another explosion went off throwing Lip against a wall. Lip stayed there in shock. Fin saw Lip get thrown. Without hesitating she ran to his aid. Bullets rained down and Fin threw herself over him. The gun fire stopped for Fin to see that Liip looked dazed and Fin still had her scarf hiding her face. She checked the cut to his face, it wasn't bad, she noticed his eyesight, he was looking down. Fin glanced down, his crotch was covered in blood, without hesitation she ripped his trousers open. He looked up at her, Fin held up her thumb and signalled you're ok

"Lip!" Fin turned to see Tab running over

Fin jumped up and ran in the opposite direction. She dived into a building and took cover. She could hear Easy had taken control and were clearing buildings, she needed to get back, behind them, they couldn't find her here. She made her way to the back of the building and crawled through the kitchen window into the garden, as she scaled the wall, she threw herself over into the field. She took a second to breathe, her body throbbing with pain from her bullet wound and whatever injuries she received from jumping out of the upstairs window after throwing that grenade. Just as she got to her feet, a loud explosion rang out and she could hear American voices shouting "MEDIC!"

She ran as fast as she could, wincing with every step, she stuck her red cross back on and pulled her scarf down.

...

Fin ran up the track, Dog Company were already in the village supporting Easy clear the buildings,, she was way behind. She ran into the main street.

"Where the fuck have you been Fin!" Doc screamed at her "We fucking need you! Tipper is fucking badly hurt and you weren't here!"

Fin rushed over and knelt by Tipper.

"Don't bother" Doc shouted pushing Fin away.

Fin stood up to see Liebgott, Tab and Perconte staring at her, they looked angry and disappointed.

"Corporal Finney!"

Fin turned her head, it was Winters

"On me!" he called

Speirs watched as Doc had turned on Fin and the other men giving her the cold shoulder, none of them noticed the blood flowing from her arm and the fact that she was limping, where had she been?

...

Winters, Nix, Buck and now Harry brought Fin into a secluded building away from the company CP and the men.

Fin sat on a table as the Officers discussed how they were going to handle the Roe/Fin situation.

"Permission to speak Sir?" Fin asked.

"Permission granted" Winters replied.

"If the men knew my position, then this wouldn't have happened, they wouldn't try to shoot me and I wouldn't have to work harder trying to hide from them."

"Brass won't allow it and who tried to shoot you?" Winters replied.

"It doesn't matter Sir, but as I was positioned on the German side for some of the assault, I was nearly shot"

"If it was up to me, I'd tell them, but it's not" Winters said.

Nix walked over to Fin "You're gonna get a hell of a shiner" Nix cupped Fin's face looking concerned. "We need to get that bullet out as well" turning his gaze to Fin's upper arm.

"We need to tell Roe at least" Buck said

Winters nodded. Would you go get him? Buck smiled at Fin and left.

"Two missions and you have been wounded both times, do you always get wounded?" Nix asked.

Looking hurt from the comment, not her wounds Fin replied "No, but I am human, not bullet proof. It would help if I didn't get caught up in friendly fire as well, the Red Devils knew and my missions worked perfectly with their assaults, let me look at your leg Sir" Fin said turning her attention to Winters.

"We can't inform the men" Winters repeated. "You need to concentrate on your mission and not do extra to help the men." Winters continued. "Doc can see to it when he gets here, we need to sort this situation"

"My mission was to help the men and that's what I did"

"Your mission was to take out snipers" Winters informed her "You did a great job Fin, we just have a situation now with some of the men thinking you held back on the assault."

Fin nodded, she really didn't want anyone to think that.

"It's my fault, I didn't prepare for this" Winters sighed.

Buck returned with Doc Roe. Doc scowled at Fin as he walked past her, not caring for her injuries.

"Doc, we need to tell you about Fin" Winters started.

...

Speirs watched as Fin stormed out of the building he had seen Easy Officers smuggle her into. She looked angry and her arm was still untreated.

As she walked back towards the main street, Doc Roe ran out chasing after her.

Seeing this Fin ducked inside a building and Doc ran past.

Speirs walked over to where she was. He opened the door and followed her in. Fin had her back to him. "What's going on Corporal?" he asked.

"I can't tell you Sir" Fin replied still facing away from him.

"You need medical attention" he said softly.

"I need a bloody transfer is what I need Sir!" Fin said turning and attempting to get past him.

Speirs grabbed her being careful not to hurt her, but she winced any way, he realised she had more than one wound. He lifted her chin to see the bruise forming on her forehead and under her left eye.

"You received these when Roe was looking for you didn't you?" Speirs asked

Fin didn't respond.

"I'm getting you medical attention" he ordered

"I am medical and I can attend to myself Sir!" Fin replied

"Let me help you" Speirs asked

Speirs looked down at her, she was in a sorry state. Her body was hurting and her men hated her. He wanted to make her feel better. He lifted her chin once again and pulled her in close to him, he leant down...

Fin forced her way out of his arms assuming he was about to kiss her "How dare you!" she scolded "You have a girlfriend, let me remind you!"

Fin stormed off opening the front door muttering "God damn, bloody, men!" as she tried to slam the door behind her, but it caught on some debris and wouldnt close "for fucks sake" she exclaimed as she limped off.

Speirs heard her tail off saying something about needing a 'damn good cup of tea'

A kiss would have been good; but he had only intended to hold her close.

...

Doc ran back to Winters " I can't find her Sir"

Winters looked worried.

"let's try looking up, she's a climber " Nix said

"It's all my fault, I should have known she wouldn't abandon anyone!" Doc gasped.